[ewjt]

Do you actually need to simulate at that minuscule level of detail?

Or is it possible for a system to be built that can approximate biology similar to how LLMs approximate cognition without true understanding and reasoning?

[shwaj]

Maybe it’s possible to build something analogous to LLMs, but it’s going to need to be based on completely different technology, due to: 1) the lack of abundant training data (nothing analogous to a trillion-word internet to scrape) 2) the unacceptability of hallucinations (can’t just dose people; need some other way to validate)

[the_real_cher]

I don't know.

I guess it depends on how accurate you want to get and when testing therapies for humans you probably want to be pretty accurate.

There may be some abstraction layer that provides 'good enough' accuracy though that I'm not aware of.